Fuad Qalaf

Fuad Qalaf (28 March 1965-), also known as Fuad Shangole, was a leader of al-Shabaab.

Biography
Fuad Qalaf was born on 28 March 1965 in Mogadishu, Somalia, and he came to Sweden in 1992 as a migrant seeker. Qalaf later gained Swedish citizenship, and he became an imam at a mosque in Stockholm, influencing Muslims on jihad. In 2004, he returned to Somalia to help the Islamic Courts Union in the Somali Civil War against the Transitional Federal Government, and he fled to Mecca in Saudi Arabia in 2006 and then to Kenya in 2007 after the ICU's defeat. Later, he joined al-Shabaab and took part in the stoning of a 13-year-old Somali girl for not dressing in the Islamic custom and took part in the amputation of a man's hand for the theft of $100. In May 2014, he said that the group would carry out jihad in Kenya and Uganda, and hopefully the United States.